This is an analysis of the poem In The Prison Pen that begins with:
1864
Listless he eyes the palisades... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXb acXc dbXb XbXb XdbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110101 110001 110101001 1010101 10011101 1101001 11010101 1010101 01110101 111101 01000101 111111 01011111 110001 01111101 110101 11000111 101111 1100111 11 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dead connects the lines.
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